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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
Austria
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
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